'When Science Fiction Writers Used Fictional Drugs: Rise and Fall of the Twentieth-Century Drug Dystopia.' Utopian Studies Vol. The use of the name Leo Kall might be a referenece to Socrates' fictional ideal city-state Kallipolis in The Republic.

Major themes include the notion of the self in a totalitarian state, the meaning of life, and the power of love. I dreamed I fought by your side armored and strong, last night.

It has the effect that anyone who takes it will reveal anything, even things they weren't consciously aware of. I dreamed about swords last night I dreamed about battle last night. Leo Kall is a scientist who is incredibly loyal to the government and develops the drug, Kallocain, which is a truth drug. The plot centers on Leo Kall, written in diary form. Kallocain has been translated in to more than 10 languages, and was adapted into a television miniseries in 1981 by Hans Abramson. However, unlike Brave New World, where a drug is used to suppress the urge to nonconformity generally, in Kallocain a drug is used to detect individual acts and thoughts of rebellion.

Both Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Boye's Kallocain are drug dystopias, or societies in which pharmacology is used to suppress opposition to authority. Its central idea grew from the rumors of truth drugs that ensured the subordination of every citizen to the state. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain's depiction of a totalitarian world state draws on what novelist Karin Boye observed or sensed about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany of the 1930s. The classic 1940 Swedish dystopian novel Kallocain envisioned a future of drab terror.

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